# E12 - Efflorescence
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G8WUNMQ0M/efflorescence)
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**[00:04] Kai**
You're so weak.
**[00:06] Kai**
Not even worth leaving alive.
**[00:10] Kai**
It really is humorous.
**[00:13] Kai**
You expected to slay the
paper umbrella like this?
***SIGN*** Malevolent Spirits
***SIGN*** Efflorescence
**[01:58] Hyoma**
You know of the paper umbrella?
**[02:00] Kai**
I know you aspire to kill it
to avenge your slain family.
**[02:05] Hyoma**
Do you know where it is?!
**[02:07] Kai**
And you've been training
in order to take your revenge.
**[02:11] Kai**
But if this is as far as it's gotten you,
**[02:14] Kai**
your resentment must run shallow after all!
**[02:22] Hyoma**
Tell me!
**[02:43] Kai**
Harder!
**[02:45] Kai**
Harder!
**[02:46] Kai**
Try harder!
**[02:50] Nagi**
Hyoma!
**[02:59] Kai**
Welcome!
**[03:00] Nagi**
Kai!
**[03:08] Kai**
Now it's getting fun!
**[03:10] Kai**
Are you up next, Nagi?!
**[03:12] Nagi**
Don't be stupid.
**[03:14] Nagi**
I know I can't take you in a one-on-one...
**[03:17] Nagi**
But the kid told me everything!
**[03:21] Kai**
Itsuki?!
**[03:23] Itsuki**
I...
**[03:24] Itsuki**
I'm sorry, Kai-sama.
**[03:26] Itsuki**
We're out of time.
**[03:27] Kai**
W-Wait...
**[03:33] Kai**
I told you to hide...
**[03:36] Kai**
Because you're so extremely weak.
**[03:40] Nagi**
Damn it, what a pain-in-the-ass old bastard.
**[03:44] Hyoma**
Nagi.
**[03:45] Hyoma**
Tell me what's going on here.
**[03:47] Hyoma**
Or rather... first...
**[03:50] Hyoma**
Could you get me down from here?
**[03:54] Kohai Girl**
Oh, no way!
**[03:56] Natsuki**
What, really?
**[03:57] Kohai Girl**
There's gotta be some hot guys
who like the Hyakunin Isshu!
**[04:01] Natsuki**
Who cares if they like the Hyakunin Isshu?
**[04:04] Natsuki**
As long as they're hot.
**[04:05] Botan**
What are we talking about?
**[04:07] Senpai Girl**
They're plotting to rope in good-looking
guys from the new students.
**[04:11] Botan**
Ah. Right.
**[04:13] Kohai Girl**
Huh?! Botan-senpai's put off?!
**[04:15] Natsuki**
Why?
**[04:16] Natsuki**
You know our slogan this year is,
"Pick up some male club members!"
**[04:19] Kei**
Now, now.
**[04:20] Kei**
Calm down, my dear girls.
**[04:23] Kei**
This is what they call "the leisure
of the romantically attached."
***SIGN*** Romantically attached
**[04:26] Kohai Girl**
I knew it! Kunato-san is her boyfriend!
**[04:29] Botan**
Huh?!
**[04:30] Natsuki**
Don't look down on us!
**[04:32] Botan**
Look...
**[04:35] Botan**
Can you guys just tidy up already?
**[04:41] Botan**
Dating... Romance...
**[04:48] Botan**
Loving someone.
**[04:53] Botan**
All terrifying things... and
they make them look so easy.
**[05:00] Hyoma**
A greeting?
**[05:01] Kai**
I've heard rumors here and
there of your existence.
**[05:05] Kai**
I got permission to see you myself.
**[05:08] Nagi**
And you went too damn far as always!
**[05:11] Kai**
I have to amuse myself somehow.
**[05:13] Kai**
Besides, you had a little fun
with Itsuki yourselves.
**[05:18] Nagi**
That wasn't exactly fun!
**[05:22] Nagi**
How was I supposed to know
she was that damn weak?
**[05:24] Itsuki**
Well, they said they were
gonna try to stop you,
**[05:27] Itsuki**
so I figured I'd try...
**[05:30] Hyoma**
Wait a minute.
**[05:33] Hyoma**
What do you know about the paper umbrella?
**[05:36] Kai**
That's the question you attempted
to force me to answer, yes?
**[05:41] Kai**
I therefore determine that you are not yet
strong enough to warrant an answer.
**[05:47] Kai**
Am I wrong?
**[05:49] Kai**
That's my estimation.
**[05:52] Kai**
I met Kunato Hayato and Kusui before,
**[05:56] Kai**
and you are far weaker even than they,
**[05:59] Kai**
who were slain by the
paper umbrella at the time.
**[06:01] Kai**
Why don't you even use your own weapon?
**[06:05] Kai**
Is using the ones you received
from them a way to remember them?
**[06:10] Kai**
A ridiculous obsession.
**[06:14] Nagi**
You can give it a rest now, Kai.
**[06:18] Kai**
You think I'm being cruel?
**[06:19] Kai**
You're far worse than I am, Nagatsuki.
**[06:24] Nagi**
What do you mean by that?
**[06:26] Kai**
Placing Kunato Hyoma with Nagatsuki Botan...
**[06:31] Kai**
That's a true act of cruelty.
**[06:35] Botan**
What should we do for the after-party?
**[06:42] Botan**
Hyoma-san?
**[06:44] Botan**
And... who?
**[06:46] Kai**
As long as the boy remains near her,
he'll attempt to protect her.
**[06:52] Kai**
He'll consider it his duty.
**[06:54] Kai**
What could be more ironic, then?
**[06:58] Kai**
The paper umbrella who
killed his brother and sister...
**[07:01] Kai**
The one responsible for its activation
**[07:05] Kai**
was Nagatsuki Botan herself!
**[07:11] Kai**
And of course, she doesn't want
anyone protecting her anyway.
**[07:18] Kai**
Nagatsuki Botan is incapable of trusting
anyone enough to wish for that.
**[07:25] Kai**
Ironic, isn't it?
**[07:27] Nagi**
Kai!
**[07:29] Nagi**
We'd appreciate it if you'd stop insulting
our mistress with your baseless hunches.
**[07:35] Nagi/Suzuri**
We'll crush you.
**[07:38] Kai**
Here we go—
**[07:44] Itsuki**
I said you were out of time.
**[07:47] Itsuki**
Besides, you've taken
your mischief a little too far.
**[07:50] Itsuki**
Allow me to apologize on Kai-sama's behalf.
**[07:54] Itsuki**
He seems rather satisfied.
**[07:57] Itsuki**
I'll get him back in holding for a while,
**[07:59] Itsuki**
so please forgive him.
**[08:00] Nagi**
Hold it!
**[08:01] Suzuri**
Nagi, suck it up for now.
**[08:04] Itsuki**
But Kai-sama is right that
your situation is off-kilter.
**[08:11] Itsuki**
And... someone might potentially
take advantage of that.
**[08:18] Itsuki**
Never forget that.
**[08:22] Hyoma**
Excuse me, Nagi, Suzuri.
**[08:25] Hyoma**
Do you think I could have a little time off?
**[08:30] Nagi**
Don't let Kai's bullshit get to y—
**[08:34] Suzuri**
All right.
**[08:35] Nagi**
Hey!
**[08:36] Suzuri**
But don't overdo it. And see that you return.
**[08:41] Hyoma**
Thank you.
**[08:46] Nagi**
He's definitely hung up on what Kai said.
**[08:50] Suzuri**
It's about his siblings, after all.
**[08:53] Suzuri**
We can't exactly expect
him to just shake it off.
**[08:57] Suzuri**
And what Kai said...
**[09:00] Suzuri**
It's true that there are rumors about it.
**[09:03] Nagi**
That Botan's behind the
paper umbrella incident?
**[09:06] Nagi**
But it's just one of a dozen theories.
**[09:10] Suzuri**
We're just Saenome proxies, so there's
no way for us to learn the truth, but...
**[09:17] Suzuri**
It would be a lie to say we know nothing.
**[09:21] Suzuri**
We need to be as open with him as we can.
**[09:27] Kagami**
It's been four days now...
**[09:29] Kagami**
I wonder where Hyoma-san is right now.
**[09:36] Kagami**
Darn it!
**[09:37] Kagami**
This is all Kai's fault!
**[09:39] Yu**
He does enjoy stirring the pot.
**[09:42] Kagami**
It's not very nice.
**[09:44] Yu**
Hyoma apparently said
he'd be back eventually.
**[09:47] Yu**
I'm sure there's no need to worry.
**[09:50] Yu**
My greater concern lies
**[09:53] Yu**
with Botan's recent despondency.
**[09:57] Botan**
* I wonder what his expression*
* was in that moment.*
**[10:03] (Flashback) Hyoma**
I can't purge it from my mind.
**[10:06] Botan**
*If it's possible I was the cause of that...*
**[10:11] Botan**
*Then I...*
**[10:18] Tsubaki**
Papa! Visitor!
**[10:24] Taiju**
* The human in whom dwells a marebito*
* from the land of the dead,*
**[10:27] Taiju**
*that which serves as a tsukumogami's soul...*
**[10:31] Taiju**
*Nagatsuki Botan.*
**[10:33] Taiju**
*What kind of monster have you grown into?*
**[10:38] Botan**
P-Pleasure to meet you!
**[10:39] Botan**
My name is Nagatsuki Botan!
**[10:41] Botan**
Thank you for always looking after fy mamily!
**[10:44] Botan**
...m-my family.
**[10:48] Taiju**
Ah, right...
**[10:50] Taiju**
Though this is actually our second meeting.
**[10:54] Taiju**
The first was when you were
just a little thing, of course.
**[10:58] Taiju**
It's no wonder you don't remember that.
**[11:00] Tsubaki**
Have a seat.
**[11:03] Taiju**
Tsubaki told me why you've come.
**[11:06] Taiju**
You want to know how you're connected
to the paper umbrella incident, then?
**[11:13] Botan**
Yes.
**[11:18] Botan**
Thank you for your help.
**[11:20] Botan**
I'm sorry for dropping in so... er...
**[11:22] Taiju**
It's nothing.
**[11:23] Taiju**
Though it was a bit sudden, true.
**[11:25] Taiju**
But either way, the paper
umbrella is Hyoma-kun's problem.
**[11:31] Taiju**
Why're you so curious about it?
**[11:34] Botan**
Er... well...
**[11:40] Taiju**
Is this one of those
"I bet he hates me now" things?
**[11:44] Taiju**
Listen to you, like a maiden in love!
**[11:49] Taiju**
Tsubaki, have I said something rude?
**[11:54] Tsubaki**
I think you hit the nail on the head.
**[11:56] Botan**
No! N-No, no!
**[11:57] Botan**
It's not like that!
**[11:58] Botan**
Um...
**[11:59] Botan**
That... Kai-san person said those things,
**[12:02] Botan**
and then Hyoma-san ran off somewhere...
**[12:05] Botan**
Since I happened to overhear it,
I can't help but be... worried...
**[12:12] Tsubaki**
Hyoma-chan ran off somewhere?
**[12:14] Taiju**
He's been training with us,
as a matter of fact.
**[12:17] Hyoma**
Representative Kadomori!
**[12:19] Hyoma**
I've completed my Ten Vessels Sparring!
**[12:20] Hyoma**
Next!
**[12:21] Botan**
Hyoma-san?!
**[12:24] Hyoma**
Botan? What brings you here?
**[12:26] Taiju**
Convenient timing there.
**[12:28] Taiju**
He came to stay with us three days ago.
**[12:32] (Flashback) Hyoma**
Representative Kadomori!
**[12:34] (Flashback) Hyoma**
I recently encountered Kai
of the Three Great Tsukumogami,
**[12:38] (Flashback) Hyoma**
sparred with him, and was found lacking!
**[12:41] (Flashback) Hyoma**
I therefore wish to undertake training
with the Saenome Kyoto Branch.
**[12:47] (Flashback) Hyoma**
Is this acceptable?!
**[12:49] Taiju**
Hyoma-kun.
**[12:50] Taiju**
Head home for now and take tomorrow off.
**[12:53] Hyoma**
What? But I still—
**[12:55] Taiju**
Actually, the Ten Vessels Sparring you just
completed is our household's final training!
**[13:01] Hyoma**
Unthinkable!
**[13:02] Taiju**
I want you gone.
**[13:04] Taiju**
You're a nuisance to have in our house.
**[13:11] Botan**
Hyoma-san, you forgot your scarf.
**[13:15] Hyoma**
You have my thanks.
**[13:16] Taiju**
There's a surprise.
**[13:19] Taiju**
You're a bit fond of Hyoma-kun, aren't you?
**[13:22] Taiju**
Wouldn't you rather have him staying over?
**[13:24] Tsubaki**
Seems like frequent visits over a long
time would offer more chances than
**[13:29] Tsubaki**
him learning it all in a
short time and then leaving.
**[13:31] Taiju**
Wouldn't him staying over
make it easier to go after him
**[13:35] Taiju**
when Nagatsuki Botan's not around?
**[13:39] Tsubaki**
Well...
**[13:41] Tsubaki**
Maybe.
**[13:46] Hyoma**
You heard us talking there?!
**[13:48] Botan**
I'm afraid so.
**[13:50] Hyoma**
And you went to ask Kadomori the truth?
**[13:54] Hyoma**
That's quite bold.
**[13:55] Botan**
I mean... you just left
without saying anything, so...
**[14:01] Botan**
I thought you might not want to stay
in our house anymore because of that.
**[14:07] Botan**
Of course I was worried.
**[14:11] Hyoma**
I apologize.
**[14:13] Botan**
But it should matter a lot to you, right?
**[14:19] Hyoma**
Well...
**[14:23] Hyoma**
To be frank, I assumed
that part was nonsense.
**[14:28] Hyoma**
The idea of you being responsible for
the paper umbrella is transparently false.
**[14:34] Hyoma**
I learned only one thing: that I am too weak.
**[14:39] Hyoma**
Thus, I must train.
**[14:41] Hyoma**
The next time we meet, I will force out
the truth about the paper umbrella.
**[14:46] Botan**
You're really amazing, Hyoma-san.
**[14:49] Botan**
When you set your eye on something,
you never waver in going after it.
**[14:54] Hyoma**
W-Well...
**[14:55] Botan**
You trust that part of yourself.
**[15:00] Hyoma**
Botan?
**[15:02] Botan**
There's another truth that
tsukumogami, Kai, revealed.
**[15:08] Botan**
I really can't trust others.
**[15:14] Hyoma**
May I ask what happened?
**[15:19] Botan**
The truth is...
**[15:21] Botan**
I was kidnapped once.
**[15:24] Botan**
When I was seven,
**[15:26] Botan**
a whole parade of different
relatives offered to take me in.
**[15:31] (Flashback) Relative Man**
Botan...
**[15:33] (Flashback) Relative Man**
Would you be Botan, then?
**[15:35] Botan**
One was a man with kind eyes,
a distant relative.
**[15:39] Botan**
Another was my father's younger sister.
**[15:42] Botan**
She had a sour expression.
**[15:45] Botan**
It had been a little over three years since
I was allowed to venture off the grounds.
**[15:50] Botan**
But I'd already seen lots of humans and
other tsukumogami set their sights on me,
**[15:54] Botan**
as a vessel housing a marebito.
**[15:58] Botan**
My household and I were all on our guard.
**[16:02] Botan**
But...
**[16:05] Botan**
Because they were my first
blood relatives, I guess...
**[16:08] Botan**
I wanted them to care for me.
**[16:11] Botan**
I decided to trust their kindness.
**[16:14] Botan**
The one who kidnapped me was the woman.
**[16:20] Hyoma**
So she was someone you should
have been on your guard around?
**[16:25] Botan**
No, not her.
**[16:30] Botan**
She...
**[16:32] Botan**
Satsuki-san...
**[16:34] Botan**
She was trying to save me.
**[16:41] (Flashback) Relative Man**
Damn you!
**[16:43] (Flashback) Relative Man**
You can't get ahead of me, Satsuki!
**[16:46] (Flashback) Relative Man**
Give it back, now!
**[16:47] (Flashback) Relative Man**
That thing belongs to me!
**[16:58] (Flashback) Satsuki**
Botan-chan,
**[17:00] (Flashback) Satsuki**
sorry to put you through
that scary experience.
**[17:04] Botan**
Satsuki-san was the one
I was always watching out for.
**[17:08] Botan**
But I should have been
watching out for the man.
**[17:12] (Flashback) Satsuki**
Botan-chan.
**[17:14] (Flashback) Satsuki**
You are human.
**[17:16] (Flashback) Satsuki**
You're a human's... my brother's child.
**[17:19] (Flashback) Satsuki**
I'm sorry for what those
tsukumogami might think,
**[17:22] (Flashback) Satsuki**
but I won't let anybody use you.
**[17:31] (Flashback) Satsuki**
Let's live together.
**[17:34] (Flashback) Satsuki**
You'll find happiness as a human.
**[17:37] (Flashback) Satsuki**
Okay?
**[17:48] Botan**
While my guys were out searching for me,
**[17:53] Botan**
I was living a quiet,
peaceful life with Satsuki-san.
**[18:01] Botan**
I'd been taken from my parents
right after I was born,
**[18:04] Botan**
but Satsuki-san was like the mother
I'd always dreamed about.
**[18:12] Botan**
If I could have stayed with her,
**[18:14] Botan**
maybe she could have been my mother for real.
**[18:24] Botan**
But those peaceful days
came to an abrupt end.
**[18:44] (Flashback) Botan**
Satsuki-san...
**[18:46] (Flashback) Satsuki**
Botan...chan...
**[18:50] (Flashback) Relative Man**
No worries.
**[18:53] (Flashback) Relative Man**
I'll put Botan here to good use.
**[18:58] (Flashback) Satsuki**
Botan...chan...
**[19:07] Botan**
I don't remember anything after that.
**[19:12] Botan**
The next thing I knew, it was all over.
**[19:17] Botan**
And ever since then,
**[19:21] Botan**
I've been afraid...
**[19:24] Botan**
of being betrayed by those I care about.
**[19:27] Botan**
Of seeing people die protecting me.
**[19:32] Botan**
I'm unspeakably afraid of trusting anyone.
**[19:38] Botan**
I've learned how to interact confidently
with both humans and tsukumogami.
**[19:44] Botan**
But that's the absolute best I can do.
**[19:52] Botan**
I'm afraid to go any further.
**[19:56] Hyoma**
Any further?
**[19:58] Botan**
Like to have a best friend.
**[20:00] Botan**
The kind of relationship where you
trust all you are to someone else...
**[20:07] Botan**
Let alone love another person.
**[20:11] Botan**
I just can't.
**[20:14] Botan**
And so the person you are...
**[20:17] Botan**
Always marching forward,
**[20:20] Botan**
never hesitating...
**[20:25] Botan**
It's truly amazing to me.
**[20:30] Botan**
This is getting a little depressing, huh?
**[20:32] Botan**
Let's go home.
**[20:37] Hyoma**
Botan.
**[20:40] Hyoma**
You might find me acceptable.
**[20:43] Botan**
Uh... in what way?
**[20:46] Hyoma**
Well, I mean...
**[20:49] Hyoma**
Perhaps you might trust me.
**[20:53] Hyoma**
Do you agree?
**[20:54] Botan**
Um... what?
**[20:57] Hyoma**
After all, I refuse to die
until I achieve my life's goal,
**[21:00] Hyoma**
and I am undergoing training now
to ensure that is possible!
**[21:04] Hyoma**
You know this, do you not?!
**[21:05] Botan**
Y-Yes...
**[21:07] Hyoma**
I might add,
**[21:08] Hyoma**
do you think me skilled enough at manipulation
as to successfully deceive you?!
**[21:12] Botan**
N-No, you're very awkward, in fact!
**[21:15] Hyoma**
A-Awkward?
**[21:18] Hyoma**
True enough, I suppose.
**[21:20] Hyoma**
Regardless, I feel that you might
find me acceptably trustworthy.
**[21:25] Hyoma**
Do you agree?
**[21:28] Botan**
Well... I...
**[21:31] Botan**
I just...
**[21:32] Botan**
I...
**[21:34] Hyoma**
Botan.
**[21:35] Hyoma**
This I swear.
**[21:36] Hyoma**
I will not betray you. I will not die.
**[21:40] Hyoma**
I...
**[21:42] Hyoma**
I'll always keep you safe.
**[21:52] Botan**
Whe...
**[21:54] Hyoma**
Whe?
**[21:54] Botan**
Where did "keep you safe" come from?!
**[21:56] Hyoma**
It... It was merely an expression of resolve!
**[21:59] Botan**
And aren't you oversimplifying
things just a tad?!
**[22:04] Botan**
But...
**[22:05] Botan**
But can I... really...
**[22:08] Botan**
Can I really, really trust you?
**[22:12] Hyoma**
Indeed.
**[22:13] Hyoma**
Bring it on!
**[22:20] Hyoma**
What is it?
**[22:21] Botan**
I...
**[22:23] Botan**
I don't think I've ever seen you...
**[22:27] Botan**
really smile before.
**[22:29] Hyoma**
Eh?
**[22:30] Hyoma**
Surely, I am as capable of smiling as anyone!
**[22:34] Botan**
But still! I've never actually seen it!
**[22:37] Botan**
Yu's even said, "I suspect he even lacks
facial muscles," and stuff like that!
**[22:41] Hyoma**
That's very rude!
**[22:44] Botan**
You look kind of like a kid when you smile.
**[22:47] Hyoma**
I know not of what you speak!
**[22:49] Hyoma**
Fare thee well!
**[22:53] Haori**
* What a surprise...*
* to hear her talk of old times.*
**[22:58] Haori**
* I thought it would take*
* a lot longer for that.*
**[23:01] Haori**
*It's very promising.*
**[23:03] Botan**
Hey! Let's walk home together!
**[23:07] Botan**
Darn it...